Sample Sentences for
stimulus
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    When his heart spoke to him, it was to provide a stimulus to the boy, and to give him strength, because the days of silence there in the desert were wearisome.  (source)
    stimulus = something that encourages action
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    "At this point," she said, "pain is our ally. It acts as a stimulus. It will help him regain consciousness."  (source)
    stimulus = something that causes the body to react
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    It's the consequence of adrenaline and other hormones flooding our system, usually in response to some kind of stimulus.  (source)
    stimulus = something external that causes the body to react
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    He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed.  (source)
    stimulus = something that makes the body react
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    When they find either thing, they stop to enjoy the visual stimuli.  (source)
    stimuli = things that create excitement
    standard suffix: Note that stimuli is plural for stimulus. This pattern is seen in other words that come from Latin such as cacti for cactus, fungi for fungus, and nuclei for nucleus.
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    He was sensitive to the most incidental stimulus and he thought he could feel the object itself yearning to burst.†  (source)
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    There were too many stimuli, in this water, under this sky, the light a latticework shifting over her bright flesh.  (source)
    stimuli = things that causes a reaction
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    It was fascinating, at least to him, to see how the men he had fought with most often reacted to the stimulus of attack.†  (source)
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    I felt drugged, disengaged, thoroughly insulated from external stimuli.†  (source)
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    She could think of nothing but, once started, Gerald needed no stimulus other than an audience.†  (source)
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    Her blood pressure gradually worsened, and she was losing what little function, purposeful movement, and response to stimuli she had.†  (source)
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    And then Anthony spoke of the proper experiences of an artist, of the appreciation and criticism and stimulus he should expect from his friends, of the hazards he should take in the pursuit of emotion, of one thing and another while I fell drowsy and let my mind wander a little.†  (source)
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    And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid life-style, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.†  (source)
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